Best Books of 2020-2022
These are my favourite books that I’ve read over the past 3 years, since I started keeping a record of what I’ve been reading. I’ve gone for some separation of categories to make it easier to peruse.
Special Categories
These authors are separated from the other lists because their work is so consistently good (to my taste), that they would otherwise dominate my lists.
Richard Wagamese
Becky Chambers
Fiction
Series
The Expanse - James S.A. Corey - Features 9 full length novels and 1 collection of short stories
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells - Features 5 novellas and 1 full length novel (so far)
The Broken Earth - N.K. Jemisin - features 3 novels
Oxford Time Travel - Connie Willis - features 3 novels
Remembrance of Earth’s Past - Liu Cixin - features 3 primary novels
Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons - features 4 primary novels
Imperial Radch - Ann Leckie - features 3 primary novels
Teixcalaan - Arkady Martine - features 2 primary novels
The Machineries of Empire - Yoon Ha Lee - features 3 primary novels
Earthseed - Octavia E. Butler - features 2 primary novels
Speculative
Historical & Epic
Contemporary
Non-Fiction
Nature, Science, Medicine
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest - Suzanne Simard
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter - Ben Goldfarb
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Perez
Social Justice, Intersectionality